German television is reporting that Bush had to take off from the area after copping abuse.

The reporters are dumbfounded as to why the aid is NOT getting in as people are coming and going.

Of course we know why.

Countries like Veneszuala, Indonesia are offering aid. The U.S has officially asked the E.U for help.

Just a couple more well orchestrated events and the scam will be in.

One woman was screaming..."we need someone to take control and restore order!"...yes indeed...

freeman

09-03-2005, 08:05 AM

All I can say is that when George W. Bush hugged those black women in that obsequious photo footage, I sure hope they were smart enough to lift his wallet.
...because that's the last assistance they'll ever get from him.

truebeliever

09-03-2005, 07:48 PM

:-D

No, i disagree...he'll "assist" the U.S people into poverty, into a police state and various other government "assistant's".

You are way to harsh on the man. :-(

freeman

09-03-2005, 08:20 PM

Oh well, as long as he puts food on their families.
...do have any ideal how frightening and surreal it is to live here in the U. S. and go through this?

http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/4746/bushsignal5xa.jpg

igwt

09-03-2005, 08:31 PM

Email From Doctor
In New Orleans Reveals
Much Horror
9-3-5

(9-1-5) --This is a dispatch from New Orleans from Dr. Greg Henderson, a pathologist who recently moved from Wilmington....

Thanks to all of you who have sent your notes of concern and your prayers. I am writing this note on Thurs. at 2 p.m.. I wanted to update all of you as to the situation here. I don't know how much information you are getting but I am certain it is more than we are getting. Be advised that almost everything I am telling you is from direct observation or rumor, from reasonable sources. They are allowing limited internet access, so I hope to
send this dispatch today.

Personally, my family and I are fine. My family is safe in Jackson, Miss.,and I am now a temporary resident of the Ritz Carleton Hotel in New Orleans.I figured if it was my time to go, I wanted to go in a place with a good wine list. In addition, this hotel is in a very old building on Canal Streetthat could and did sustain little damage. Many of the other hotels sustained significant loss of windows, and we expect that many of the guests may be evacuated here.

The first floor of all downtown buildings on Canal street, is underwater. I have heard that Charity Hospital and Tulane are limited in their ability to care for patients because of water. Ochsner is the only hospital that remains fully functional. However, I spoke with them today and they too are on generator and losing food and water fast.

The city now has no clean water, no sewerage system, no electricity, and no real communications. Bodies are still being recovered floating in the floods. We are worried about a cholera epidemic. Even the police are without effective communications. We have a group of armed police here with us at the hotel that is admirably trying to exert some local law enforcement. This is tough because looting is now rampant. Most of it is not malicious looting. These are poor and desperate people with no housing and no medical care and no food or water trying to take care of themselves and their families.

Unfortunately, some of the people are armed and dangerous. We hear gunshots frequently. Most of Canal street is occupied by armed looters who have a low threshold for discharging their weapons. We hear gunshots frequently. The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access. We are still waiting for a significant national guard presence.

The health care situation here has dramatically worsened overnight. Many people in the hotel are elderly and small children. Many other guests have unusual diseases. ... There are (Infectious Disease) physicians in at this hotel attending an HIV conference. We have commandeered the world famous French Quarter Bar to turn into an makeshift clinic. There is a team of about seven doctors and PAs and pharmacists. We anticipate that this will be the major medical facility in the central business district and French Quarter, until we are all rescued.

Our biggest adventure today was raiding the Walgreens on Canal under police escort. The pharmacy was dark and full of water. We basically scooped the entire drug sets into garbage bags and removed them. All under police escort. The looters had to be held back at gunpoint. After a dose of prophylactic Cipro I hope to be fine.

In all, we are faring well. We have set up a hospital in the French Quarter bar in the hotel, and will start admitting patients today. Many will be from the hotel, but many will not. We are anticipating dealing with multiple medical problems, medications and acute injuries. Infection and perhaps even cholera are anticipated major problems. Food and water shortages are imminent.

The biggest question to all of us is where is the National Guard. We hear jet fighters and helicopters, but no real armed presence, and hence the rampant looting. There is no Red Cross and no Salvation Army.

In a sort of cliché way, this is an edifying experience. One is rapidly focused away from the transient and material to the bare necessities of life. It has been challenging to me to learn how to be a primary care physician. We are under martial law so return to our homes is impossible. I don't know how long it will be and this is my greatest fear. Despite it all,this is a soul-edifying experience. The greatest pain is to think about the loss. And how long the rebuild will take. And the horror of so many dead people.

PLEASE send this to all you think may be interested. I will send more according to your interest. Hopefully, their collective prayers will be answered. By the way, suture packs, sterile gloves and stethoscopes will be needed as the Ritz turns into a MASH unit.

Greg Henderson, MD

09-03-2005, 08:40 PM

igwt wrote:
Email From Doctor
In New Orleans Reveals
Much Horror
9-3-5

(9-1-5) --This is a dispatch from New Orleans from Dr. Greg Henderson, a pathologist who recently moved from Wilmington....

Thanks to all of you who have sent your notes of concern and your prayers. I am writing this note on Thurs. at 2 p.m.. I wanted to update all of you as to the situation here. I don't know how much information you are getting but I am certain it is more than we are getting. Be advised that almost everything I am telling you is from direct observation or rumor, from reasonable sources. They are allowing limited internet access, so I hope to
send this dispatch today.

Personally, my family and I are fine. My family is safe in Jackson, Miss.,and I am now a temporary resident of the Ritz Carleton Hotel in New Orleans.I figured if it was my time to go, I wanted to go in a place with a good wine list. In addition, this hotel is in a very old building on Canal Streetthat could and did sustain little damage. Many of the other hotels sustained significant loss of windows, and we expect that many of the guests may be evacuated here.

The first floor of all downtown buildings on Canal street, is underwater. I have heard that Charity Hospital and Tulane are limited in their ability to care for patients because of water. Ochsner is the only hospital that remains fully functional. However, I spoke with them today and they too are on generator and losing food and water fast.

The city now has no clean water, no sewerage system, no electricity, and no real communications. Bodies are still being recovered floating in the floods. We are worried about a cholera epidemic. Even the police are without effective communications. We have a group of armed police here with us at the hotel that is admirably trying to exert some local law enforcement. This is tough because looting is now rampant. Most of it is not malicious looting. These are poor and desperate people with no housing and no medical care and no food or water trying to take care of themselves and their families.

Unfortunately, some of the people are armed and dangerous. We hear gunshots frequently. Most of Canal street is occupied by armed looters who have a low threshold for discharging their weapons. We hear gunshots frequently. The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access. We are still waiting for a significant national guard presence.

The health care situation here has dramatically worsened overnight. Many people in the hotel are elderly and small children. Many other guests have unusual diseases. ... There are (Infectious Disease) physicians in at this hotel attending an HIV conference. We have commandeered the world famous French Quarter Bar to turn into an makeshift clinic. There is a team of about seven doctors and PAs and pharmacists. We anticipate that this will be the major medical facility in the central business district and French Quarter, until we are all rescued.

Our biggest adventure today was raiding the Walgreens on Canal under police escort. The pharmacy was dark and full of water. We basically scooped the entire drug sets into garbage bags and removed them. All under police escort. The looters had to be held back at gunpoint. After a dose of prophylactic Cipro I hope to be fine.

In all, we are faring well. We have set up a hospital in the French Quarter bar in the hotel, and will start admitting patients today. Many will be from the hotel, but many will not. We are anticipating dealing with multiple medical problems, medications and acute injuries. Infection and perhaps even cholera are anticipated major problems. Food and water shortages are imminent.

The biggest question to all of us is where is the National Guard. We hear jet fighters and helicopters, but no real armed presence, and hence the rampant looting. There is no Red Cross and no Salvation Army.

In a sort of cliché way, this is an edifying experience. One is rapidly focused away from the transient and material to the bare necessities of life. It has been challenging to me to learn how to be a primary care physician. We are under martial law so return to our homes is impossible. I don't know how long it will be and this is my greatest fear. Despite it all,this is a soul-edifying experience. The greatest pain is to think about the loss. And how long the rebuild will take. And the horror of so many dead people.

PLEASE send this to all you think may be interested. I will send more according to your interest. Hopefully, their collective prayers will be answered. By the way, suture packs, sterile gloves and stethoscopes will be needed as the Ritz turns into a MASH unit.

Greg Henderson, MD

I can't take it!! It was repeating before this. Living in squalor, living in squalor, breeding ground for diseases. Displacing people.

Psychological warfare!! is at hand!!!

Loss of home, city, loved ones, job!! Beating the downtrodden even further down!!!

Just as with the Sniper. Just as with the virus in China after 911. Repeating!!!

I hate to tap into this stuff. It freaked me out as a child and it still does.

Paranormal!!

The Baaton was out in the Gulf for weeks conducting exercises. Where exactly was it before and during Katrina?

I guess we'll never know!!

09-03-2005, 08:46 PM

freeman wrote:
Oh well, as long as he puts food on their families.
...do have any ideal how frightening and surreal it is to live here in the U. S. and go through this?

http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/4746/bushsignal5xa.jpg

My father referred to that as the sign of the devil. As in "devil horns."

How 'bout the "thumbs up" signal? What's that mean???

truebeliever

09-03-2005, 09:14 PM

...do have any ideal how frightening and surreal it is to live here in the U. S. and go through this?

No. Cant say I do.

I get around alot. I like to hear peoples views (stop laughing!) and will engage strangers in conversation on issues.

I will tell you...from street kid to man in suit...no one in Perth, West Oz could beleive that half wit was voted in. Or at least %30 of Americans did anyway. Mostly from Texas...but thats understandable.

So it all began 5 years ago. History will be harsh on this little episode.

The idiocy of this man merely confirms for me that he is part of a much wider plan to foment the break up of the U.S into civil war and allow a great deal of leverage of the supposed Left to instigate a "socialist" style Police State.

It is specifically socialist as the economic structure has NOTHING to do with Facism. Facism is the "efficient" to and fro between the State and Private enterprise which flows on to an efficient to and fro between Private Enterprize and the citizen.

It is marked by order. Not chaos and corruption.

The U.S has NEVER fitted this structure.

The U.S is SPECIFICALLY a Trotskyite/Leninist/Stalinist Empire builder.

In other times it was known as simple power mad and corrupt arseholes in power. Also known as Organised Crime.

Hell, even Hitler locked up the crims and looked after his people.

I think we should stop using the word "Fascism" when describing the current ideology permiating the U.S.